AWS announces Aurora DSQL, a new distributed SQL database that promises virtually unlimited scalability

At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability (99.999% for multi-region availability), strong consistency,…

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AWS’ Trainium2 chips for building LLMs are now generally available, with Trainium3 coming in late 2025

At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced the general availably of its Trainium2 (T2) chips for training and deploying large language models (LLMs). These chips, which AWS first announced a…

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Philanthropy vet launches startup to help people ‘get smart’ about climate investing and giving

Preventing deforestation is one of the immediate, important steps to slow climate change. (GeekWire Photo / Brent Roraback) President-elect Donald Trump is proposing fossil fuel champions for U.S. leadership roles.…

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Chinese chip firms say a new round of US sanctions won’t stop China’s chip industry — Chinese government responds with its own export restrictions anyways

The US and China trade blows yet again on semiconductor products and minerals, but Chinese companies say they’ll survive. Source

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